UKIP has called a “Make Brexit happen” rally this Friday 29 March in Whitehall. The fascist “Tommy Robinson” (real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon) will be speaking. Stand Up To Racism and Unite Against Fascism have called a counter demonstration at 14.00 – details here.
Cambridge dons revolt over ‘racist’ fellow’s role
More than 200 academics have signed a letter accusing a controversial scholar of “racist pseudoscience” after he was appointed to a fellowship at Cambridge University, The Times reported on 7 December 2018. Noah Carl is a social scientist who has spoken at a eugenics conference and has said that hostility to immigrant groups draws on […]
Unite against Tommy Robinson’s hate march
Stand Up To Racism calls upon anti-fascists to oppose Tommy Robinson’s and Gerard Batten’s ‘Brexit crisis’ demonstration under the slogan ‘Don’t let the far right hijack May’s crisis. No to racism and fascism.’ Fascist ‘Tommy Robinson’, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, and his thuggish supporters will take to the streets of London on Sunday 9 […]
Holocaust denial industry loses one of its chief proponents
A long planned trip to the UK by one of the world’s leading Holocaust deniers ended in chaos. And the very next day he popped his jackboots. Robert Faurisson’s extreme-right hosts had put in place a massive security effort for his visit to Shepperton, the town where he was born to a French father and […]
Analysis: the ‘Free Tommy’ demo and a year of far right protests (with table and video)
This article by Martin Smith and Tash Shifrin first appeared on Dream Deferred on 11 June 2018. Thousands of protestors turned out in Whitehall, central London, on Saturday 14 July for the latest “Free Tommy Robinson” demo – and the latest in just over a year of far right racist street protests, which we have listed […]
Trade union movement and Labour Party gear up against Tommy Robinson’s fascist rally on Saturday
The fight against the emerging Islamophobic street movement picked up pace this week, Unite Against Fascism writes. Activists from across the trade unions and Labour Party have been mobilising for the counter-demonstration to the next Free Tommy Robinson rally in Whitehall this Saturday. Initiated by Stand Up To Racism and Unite Against Fascism, it is […]